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BlackBerry 8830 World Edition hands-on
Michael Caputo over at Engadget got his hands on Verizon’s new BlackBerry 8830 World Edition device. Check out what he has to say about it and pictures over at Engadget.
Category: AT&T (Cingular)
BlackBerry 8820 Wi-Fi Edition hands-on!
The team over at Engadget was lucky enough to get their hands on a BlackBerry 8820 Wi-Fi Edition. Basically its pretty much the same thing as the 8800 only adds Wi-Fi 802.11. To answer all of your questions yes… Yes we will see the 8820 on AT&T soon. The device comes loaded with AT&T branding all over it. While no further information is available on a solid release date we imagine it’ll be coming really soon.
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BlackBerry Curve now listed on AT&T
The BlackBerry Curve is now listed on Cingular AT&T’s Business Center site. You can register on the site to get notified when the device is available. Just looks like they’re getting on step closer to a launch.
Get the AT&T-exclusive BlackBerry Curve and experience the lightest, smallest BlackBerry yet with an improved full QWERTY keyboard. Featuring a liquid silver finish with chrome accents, the stylish, optimized design addresses both professional and personal needs and offers the perfect balance of performance and usability.
The BlackBerry Curve is the first BlackBerry to offer a 2 megapixel camera, AT&T Mobile Music for streaming sound, an enhanced media player for music and video, AT&T Media Mall for purchasing ringtones and downloads and Internet browsers for up-to-the minute information. Plus, the BlackBerry Curve features TeleNav Maps™ for text driving directions, upgradeable to TeleNav GPS Navigator™ for audible turn-by-turn driving directions, points of interest and traffic information when equipped with a separate GPS accessory.
BlackBerry Curve bash in NYC
BG has posted over on his site that it looks like RIM and AT&T are holding a BlackBerry Curve launch party June 8th in New York City. No other real details yet but you know he will get some more info on this real soon.
Stay tuned (especially on the 25th of this month…)
Introducing the BlackBerry Curve (8300) officially
RIM has officially announced the BlackBerry Curve (8300) this morning. The BlackBerry Curve is their smallest and lightest device to date. It comes packed with a 2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), a newly designed media player, a 3.5mm headphones jack and high resolution 320×240 colour display.
Key Features:
- Quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900)
- 2 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom and flash1
- Flickr account picture uploading
- New media player with Roxio Photosuite® 9 LE
- 111g in weight / 107mm x 60 mm x 15.5 mm
- 64MB Flash memory, microSD memory card slo
The BlackBerry Curve will be available on AT&T starting this Spring. We should see it appear on other networks soon. Read more for the full press release. BlackBerryCurve.com is now live as well.
More information arises about BlackBerry 8300
Well Boy Genius is always good for the inside news. This time he has confirmed that the rumored BlackBerry 8300 (shown above) will fact be marketed as “BlackBerry Curve”. RIM is trying to aim the Curve at a consumer and business type market. RIM has registered both BlackBerry8300.com and BlackBerryCurve.com however the sites aren’t directed anywheres yet.It’s expected the BlackBerry Curve will be launched at WES (Wireless Enterprise Symposium) 2007, which starts May 8th in Orlando.
at&t’s BlackBerry 8800 vs. 8830 comparison sheet
Boy Genius has posted on his site an internal document from at&t comparing both the GSM BlackBerry 8800 and it’s CDMA cousin the 8830 (soon to offered by Verizon and Sprint). This sheet compares the two side by side and also very openly admits that AT&T will in fact be seeing a 8820 with Wi-Fi in Q3 of 2007.
So whats the big differences you ask? The BlackBerry 8800 will feature a more powerful processor 312MHz processor where as the 8830 will have a 225 MHz processor, They claim the 8830 doesn’t have GPS in it however we believe it will, The 8800 will have PTT (push to talk) and the 8830 won’t, other than that talk and stand by time (seems the 8800 wins, yet again). However the 8830 does provide much faster data with EV-DO. Click on the picture to see the full table.
